BBC Music Magazine

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The full score • Our pick of the month’s news, views and interviews

RisingStar • Today’s up-and-coming talent offer advice for their peers

Pianist Hess brings a little light amid the gloom of war

Also in October 1939…

The BBC Music Magazine team’s current favourites…

Concert Heaven Concert Hell • Top artists recall their best and worst performances

MyHero

Get Bach on the dance floor

FAREWELL TO…

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Pick a theme… and name your seven favourite examples

Richard Morrison • At best they’re joyous, but when musicals fail, they fail spectacularly

That’s entertainment! • Were Rodgers & Hammerstein the Puccini of the mid-20th century? If so, where do operas end and musicals begin? James Inverne explores the classical origins of today’s musicals…

The best of both worlds • Canadian soprano Rebecca Caine

Notes from the podium • John Wilson on conducting musicals

A different guise… • Musicals featuring operatic stars

But that’s another story… • Five musicals with plots from operas

THE NEW FANFARE-FROM DIGEST TO MAGAZINE-SIZED

JoAnn Falletta

Through the glass ceiling • Supporting female composers

What’s wrong with Bruckner? • Almost uniquely, Bruckner seems to inspire either deep devotion or total dislike. Stephen Johnson marks the Austrian’s bicentenary by explaining why, for him, the symphonies have become firm friends

Bruckner’s Symphonies • A quick introduction

An unfortunate idol • Bruckner and the Nazis

Levelling the score • A decade ago, concert venues began to promote more works by women; but, asks Jessica Duchen, has that trend inspired change in the long term?

Difficult voices • Diversity or style?

The best of the best • As the Curtis Institute marks its centenary, Charlotte Smith visits the elite Philadelphian music school to discover the secrets of its success

‘Learn by doing’ • Performing opportunities

Seizing the day • Facing a terminal illness has given award-winning theatre composer Adrian Sutton a sharp new impetus, he tells Michael Beek

New season guide LIVE MUSIC GUIDE 2024/25 • It’s full steam ahead as ensembles and venues usher in a packed new year

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USA & Canada

Rest of the World

Saint-Émilion France • Claire Jackson samples (very) fine wines and musical delights in sun-drenched Bordeaux as she tours the district’s historic châteaux

Ludwig van Beethoven • Though deaf and in badly declining health, the ageing Beethoven remained extraordinarily inventive to the end, as Misha Donat explains

Beethoven’s style – the late quartets

BEETHOVEN Life&Times

Bedřich Smetana Má Vlast • Woods, fields and a rolling river beguile Mikel Toms as he names the best recordings of the Czech’s famous fond portrayal of his home patch

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